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All those questions you asked are very individual. There is NO ONE WAY TO DIET. Every body will respond to slightly different methods.
Again, this is why dieting is trial and error. You have to pick a method and stick with it, then monitor results. After about 8 weeks of maintaining one way of diet, evaluate your results. Change things from there.
It can take months, even years, to figure out what works for you. You will likely go through many many changes to a diet to find what food combinations work for YOU.
Again, this is why dieting is trial and error. You have to pick a method and stick with it, then monitor results. After about 8 weeks of maintaining one way of diet, evaluate your results. Change things from there.
It can take months, even years, to figure out what works for you. You will likely go through many many changes to a diet to find what food combinations work for YOU.
Sassy69
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As Daisy said, dieting isn't a canned formula. That's what is so scary about these fad diets. For example, the Atkins Diet - yea, its low carb. But it skips the part about eating good quality fats, not just any fat you want but totally cutting your carbs. It may "work" in the short term, but it is not a healthy lifestyle in the long run. On the other side, if you focus on a 'low fat' diet like used to be so popular, well then you screw yourself out of another important part of a healthy diet. It isn't one or the other.
The point is to find a healthy balance of all these things: fats, carbs & proteins as well as enzymes and other nutrients that are found in foods and can't be thrown in as a supplement. At the end of the day, I think the most important thing to keep in mind for a healthy diet is "moderation in everything" and also variety. A restricted diet may help you to drop some fat initially, but again, you need to give your body what it needs. This goes to an earlier question you had about how long does one diet. Generally a particular approach will run 8-16 weeks - it takes at least 3 weeks to see any sort of result from any particular type of eating, and then it still takes time for your body to adjust to a particular type of eating and then to hit its stride to get some reasonable results that will hold. For example, you might follow a particular diet that is rather restricted in what you can eat (e.g. chicken, steak, oatmeal, green vegetables, flax oil) - run it for say 12 weeks, get your results, but then ease up on the restrictions - throw in an apple or some other fruit for variety - fruits provide enzymes that your body needs to help clean out the byproducts of a restricted diet.
The point is to find a healthy balance of all these things: fats, carbs & proteins as well as enzymes and other nutrients that are found in foods and can't be thrown in as a supplement. At the end of the day, I think the most important thing to keep in mind for a healthy diet is "moderation in everything" and also variety. A restricted diet may help you to drop some fat initially, but again, you need to give your body what it needs. This goes to an earlier question you had about how long does one diet. Generally a particular approach will run 8-16 weeks - it takes at least 3 weeks to see any sort of result from any particular type of eating, and then it still takes time for your body to adjust to a particular type of eating and then to hit its stride to get some reasonable results that will hold. For example, you might follow a particular diet that is rather restricted in what you can eat (e.g. chicken, steak, oatmeal, green vegetables, flax oil) - run it for say 12 weeks, get your results, but then ease up on the restrictions - throw in an apple or some other fruit for variety - fruits provide enzymes that your body needs to help clean out the byproducts of a restricted diet.
Just to expand on the others, I think the optimal diet is one that cycles carbs so you have them when you need them (to train and recoverand keep metabolism from crashing) and otherwise keep them on the low side. This is a truly moderate approach which allows you ample good quality carbs, EFAs protein, and vegetables when you need them.There are many variations of this which may involve eating carbs only on training days (but not on cardio-only days), or more dramatic variations such as Lyle McDonald's UD 2.0, or eating lower carbs through the week and having higher carb "refeeds" scheduled regularly.
